Use of Illegal Drugs and Cognitive Performance

Use of Illegal Drugs and Cognitive Performance

The regular use of some illegal drugs may cause cognitive impairments. Two of these substances are "ecstasy" and "canabis". Recent research has focussed on attention and memory in a community-based sample of young adults derived from a large-scale epidemiological study. Subjects were sampled with varying degrees of lifetime drug use.A dose-response relationship was found for…

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